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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
John Martin Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hari Kannan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nenad Miladinovic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for erasure detection in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes establishing a connection, via a network, of a storage unit to one of a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster and determining, for at least one page of a storage memory of the storage unit, that the at least one page is erased. The storage unit is one of a plurality of storage units configured to store user data in memory of the storage units in accordance with direction from the plurality of storage nodes. The method includes communicating from the storage unit to the one of the plurality of storage nodes that the at least one page is erased.